Two historical reenactors prepare for a skit in the Moyer House, one of several vignettes playing throughout town for the Carriage Me Back event.
Held this year on May 3-4, organizers of the annual fundraiser focused their theme on 1909, presenting horse-drawn carriage rides and historical reenactments throughout town before ending at the Moyer House for final entertainment. Proceeds support the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville.
Photos by Chelly Bouferrache
A Chafin Farms carriage pulls up to the Moyer House with a full audience.
Marie Elizabeth, a resident of Brownsville and volunteer for the Moyer Museum, pets one of the Belgian mules.
Jeff Smith, owner of the Janky Bird boutique, takes part in the Carriage Me Back Days.
A Brownsville resident playing Isadora Duncan answers questions from a journalist at the Moyer House.
Tom Marquette, owner and driver of a Belgian Mule team, removes the lead rope in preparation to give a few more rides.
Brownsville resident and reenactor Marie Elizabeth takes a moment to pet a dog.
Sawyer Watkins, 7, dressed as a newsboy for The Brownsville Times, directs visitors to where they can subscribe to the revived historical paper.
Volunteers for a revived Brownsville Times newspaper solicit donations and subscriptions.
Carriages head up North Main Street during Carriage Me Back Days. Two carriages took part in the festivities and ferried people to different historical skits taking place in town.